Our RV Adventures

After having our morning coffee, I started sorting thru some cabinets inside the rig, consolidating some things and throwing out a lot of other things. I ended up with about 6 bags of trash for the dumpster.

Then I headed outside to start going thru some of the bins. In some cases I was looking for some tools that I needed for my computer job starting tomorrow. But I did get a lot things moved around and stored away.

Later we met Bob & Maria for dinner at T-Bone Tom’s about 6pm. I had another round of Armadillo Eggs, really, really good.

Since it’s a short post today, I thought I’d repost some of our visit to Newfoundland in September 2009.

More tomorrow. . .

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Thought for the Day:

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they do make it interesting.

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“Ferry cross the Mers… uh…North Atlantic…”

Posted on September 4, 2009

Today was our last day in Louisbourg for a while.

Tonight at 11:00 pm we catch the car ferry for the 15 hour, 325 mile trip to Argentia, Newfoundland.

However, unlike some RV’ers, we’re not taking our coach over.  Jan said “No way I’m putting my home on a ferry.  Those things can sink. I’ve seen it on the news.”

So we’re leaving the rig in Louisbourg and taking the truck on the ferry, and we’ll stay at B&B/motels for the 3-4 days we’re in Newfoundland.

We went out for breakfast about 10 am and ended up sitting next to another RVing couple from VA.  Gene and Chris had just spent two months in Newfoundland and gave us a lot of good tips.  Hopefully we’ll meet up again sometime.  Nice people!

About 3 pm we left for North Sydney, Nova Scotia, where the ferry dock is. 

We  wanted to drive around the area,  do some last minute shopping,  get gas, and then eat supper before we boarded.

Although we didn’t sail until 11 pm,  we had to be checked in and in line by 9:30, or we would lose our reservations.  And, after taking care of all our chores, we ended up getting in line about 7:30, along with a lot of other people who were already there.

They board all the commercial stuff first and then the cars.  We finally started moving onboard about 10 pm

After entering the ship on Deck 1,   we drove up a ramp and parked on Deck 3.

By about 10:30 pm we were up on the passenger decks with our stuff. You have to bring everything with you that you’ll need for the trip from your vehicle because you’re not allowed to go back to it during the voyage.

We had reserved two seats in the sleeping area that reclined and had footrests. It turns out to have been a mistake because they were very uncomfortable. We would have been better off to have just stayed in the regular seating area. Those seats also reclined, but didn’t have footrests. But they were much more comfortable.

After grabbing a late night muffin snack in the cafeteria, we settled in for the night.

More road trip tomorrow…

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and I won!

The new base adapter kit from Dometic finally let me mount the toilet correctly.

To review . . . I bought a new toilet while we were in Las Vegas last March because I was tired of replacing the seals in the old one. But I also bought myself a lot of new problems.

Thinking I would simplify things, I bought the same Sealand Traveler 500 toilet that was already in the coach. But in the intervening 10 years they had changed the base plate from a 4 bolt mount to a 2 bolt one.

I put in a call to Sealand to see if they had anything to help me with the problem. Not only did they not have anything to help, they didn’t seem to understand what the problem even was.

So I tried various schemes over the last year with only a modicum of success…usually temporary.

So a couple of weeks ago, in an act of quiet desperation, I called Sealand again.

And lo and behold, they’d finally figured out they had a problem. And now they had an adapter kit to fix it.

And it worked great. The war is over.

We met Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at King Food at 11:30am for lunch before heading over to their house so Jan could Landon sit while Brandi and Lowell go out to a movie and then to the Taste of Texas Restaurant up on I-10 and Beltway 8.

Leaving Jan at Brandi’s, I first when by Sam’s Club, and then dropped our winter comforter off at the cleaners. After that I headed back to the rig to install the toilet adapter kit. I did make one trip out to Home Depot to get some new bolts since the old ones were a little corroded.

When I came back I found Mister and Emma jostling for position on the heated kitty bed. It looks like Emma is trying to push Mister away with her paw, but actually she’s sound asleep.

Finishing up the toilet repair, I left the rig about 5:30 and headed back up Brandi’s. While I was there I did get some great Landon pics, but I left the camera there, so they’ll be for later.

Brandi and Lowell got back about 6:30 and then Jan and I headed down to Texas City to Ryan’s for supper. Jan wanted fried chicken and they have some of the best around.

We got back to the rig about 8:30 pm and settled in for the night, after another long, but fun, day.

The weather supposed to be nice for the next several days, so I hope I can get the rest of my chores done around the rig.

More tomorrow. . .

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Thought for the Day:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may prosperity forget that you were our countrymen!" –Samuel Adams

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